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A woman gave birth to a baby in her home's bathroom after she was refused entry at a hospital in Punjab's Raiwind area on Tuesday, DawnNewsTV reported.

The woman, wife of a labourer, was taken to the Rural Health Centre Raiwind on Monday evening after she started experiencing labour pains, her relatives said.

But the staff at the health centre refused to admit her, reportedly because of a lack of facilities, and told the woman to return to the hospital in the morning, saying she would not give birth until then.

The family requested the staff to allow them to spend the night at the hospital as they could not afford the transportation cost of coming back. But the staff refused and forced them to leave the hospital.

The woman was then taken home where she ended up giving birth in a bathroom.

The baby boy born fell ill soon after birth and the family had to bring him to the hospital again. He was admitted and is recovering at the health centre.

The woman's relatives protested at the health centre, saying Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif should seal all government hospitals if they cannot provide health facilities to the poor.

The secretary of Punjab's Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department formed a three-member committee headed by the CEO of Lahore's District Health Authority to probe the incident. According to a notification, the committee was directed to submit its fact-finding report to the secretary by 4pm on Tuesday.

Initial investigation conducted by the hospital had suggested that a lady health worker refused the woman — who was experiencing severe labour pains — any medical help because "there were no doctors available at the hospital in the early hours of the morning".

health education and justice are the fundamentals for any society to progress and when a nation gets educated these flyovers metro trains projects can be carried out with local man power. But my naive countrymen don't understand. we need to set education , health and justice our top priorities

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PakiPower

Mar 13, 2018 06:36pm

This will continue to happen until the rulers' medical treatments done in the Civil hospitals with in their counties instead of foreign countries.

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Atta

Mar 13, 2018 06:47pm

Well done Sharif brothers well done

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Ghani K

Mar 13, 2018 09:17pm

Well, don't complain, the first priority is the blue line, the orange line, overpasses, underpasses in Takh -te- Lahore

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Naeem

Mar 13, 2018 11:52pm

This tragedy is expected when our leaders go to London for treatment NS and family is not interested in education and healthcare the real engine for development of a nation NS didn’t build a single quality hospital where Kalsoom Nawaz could be treated instead of London Instead he spent billions on mega projects so he could get kickbacks